Sparks: He was quoting Shakespeare, "Henry the 4th" I think, he said. "We owe God a death, if we pay it today, then we don't owe it tomorrow".
Bat Kilgallen: He's no fool.


--Richard Barthelmess (as Bat Mac Pherson) in Only Angels Have Wings

Chief Joe Thunderhorse: You used to shoot the Indian down. Now you cheat him and starve him and kill him off by dirt and disease. It's a massacre, any way you take it!


--Richard Barthelmess (as ) in Massacre

James 'Jim' Blaine: [noticing her cumbersome trailing parachute] Can I carry your train for you, your highness/
Jill Collins: Don't you know an exhibition parachute when you see one?
James 'Jim' Blaine: Well, I was so interested in the exhibition...
[moving his eyes from the chute to her derrière]
James 'Jim' Blaine: ... I never noticed the chute.


--Richard Barthelmess (as ) in Central Airport

James 'Jim' Blaine: A fella who flies for a living - what right does he have to get married?


--Richard Barthelmess (as ) in Central Airport

Geoff Carter: You got the job.
Bat Kilgallen - MacPherson: Maybe I ought you pat you on the back.
Geoff Carter: You don't have to. Just do what I tell you to do.
Bat Kilgallen - MacPherson: You mean anything that's a little too tough for somebody else, huh?
Geoff Carter: Yeah, that's about it. Look, fella, I'm knee-deep in friends around here, but you're one guy I can send out in any kind of weather on any kind of job, and only worry about the ship getting back.
Bat Kilgallen - MacPherson: I see.
Geoff Carter: On those terms, you still want the job?
Bat Kilgallen - MacPherson: I don't know any other way I'd want it.


--Richard Barthelmess (as Bat Mac Pherson) in Only Angels Have Wings

Hotel Desk Clerk #3: [to complain about the noise] The woman over you is complaining.
James 'Jim' Blaine: [sarcastically] Well, tell her I'll be right up.


--Richard Barthelmess (as ) in Central Airport

Jill Collins: [Referring to song on the jukebox] Remember that song? The birds do it... the bees do it...
James 'Jim' Blaine: [Cynically] Yeah, and ducks do it, but who wants to be a duck?


--Richard Barthelmess (as ) in Central Airport

Jill Collins: Oh, if I were only a man!
James 'Jim' Blaine: [Suggestively] The job wouldn't be nearly as interesting, not nearly.


--Richard Barthelmess (as ) in Central Airport